GDC Minutes 2020-12-02
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Welcome
- Participants
- Jürgen Brandstätter
- Tie Tjee
- Vince McCauley
- Stephane Spahni
- Approval of agenda
- Approved
National Deployment Committees
- New Reports
- Waiting for representation from IHE Germany to present report
Discuss 2021 meeting schedule
- Participation is reportedly low with staggered schedule meant to accommodate various regions/time zones
- Discussion
- Jürgen: Yes, has not approved in terms of numbers of participants, but we now have people in the loop, which were not there before (Aus, Kor, Jap)
- Vince: The staggering is important, because otherwise Australia could never have been present. Participation of Asia was quite ok all of the time.
- Stephane: The US calls have same attendance as before, so in total it's even a slight increase in number of partipcation
- All: Much more diverse participation (in people and countries)
- Tie: Number of partipication is not a matter of the schedule -> we need topics to increase participation (problem-based approach)
- All: The staggered schedule is "enabling" participation better as the one before
- Unanimously conclusion: let's keep the staggered schedule
Global Consortium for eHealth Interoperability Update
- Status
- Vince: Nominations for the committees feel pretty US-centric. There is no Asian participation at all, hardly few from Europe
- Tie: ad strategic members: the consortium must provide benefits to those strategic members. Also lookout for other sectors.
- Messages to the consortium (Jürgen forwards to GCeHI EB)
- Make sure that it's nominations to committees are "international"
Engagement of Deployment Committees
- General to work-items
- Result of: Confirmation of work-item approvals with whole GDC committee by email (Jürgen)
- Decision: Work-items have had a turnaround through regions with objections -> they are approved
- Work item: Interesting presentations could be included in the agenda on a regular basis
- Purpose: "US/Asia/Europe slots" for such presentations of "interesting topic of the country" (maybe 3/6 times a year)
- Expected result: more participation in GDC calls
- Process: Call for presentations to DCs -> make long-term presentation schedule -> do proper advertising and invite (also board)
- Status work item: Active
- Decision on process:
- Step 1: Prominent announcement of the presentation slot (mentioning the GDC call) to GDC and Board
- Step 2: Presentations given once (in just one GCD call)
- Step 3: Presentation will be cut out of the general recording and advertised for offline viewing in dedicated emails to the GDC and Board
- Step 4: Replay presentation in the complementary slot (where the presenting region is not attending)
- Step 5: Enlist presentation in a "libarary of presentations" on GDC Wiki
- Presentation slots to be scheduled:
- European X-eHealth project is strategically important for Europe, but other regions would be interested in follow-up
- Decision: regular presentations on the project course desired (Jürgen)
- Action item: Prepare presentation for February slot (Jürgen)
- Australia: National approach to Health IT Standards selection (Vince)
- Action item: Prepare presentation for March slot (Vince)
- Work item: Activity measurements
- Purpose: Find activity measurements (fees, reporting, ...) for distinguishing active from passive Deployment Committees and find a concept for Deployment Committees not paying their membership fees
- Status work item: On hold - waiting for IHE Europe input, results brought to this group as base for staring the work-item
- Status Action Items
- Report IHE Europe status and outcomes (Jürgen)
- Skipped due to time
- Work item: How can we support national Deployment Committees?
- "Good experiences" is an important way to support, develop a guideline of success factors, any help regarding getting membership
- e.g., by setting up work-items/activities/etc. on International level, which are "so interesting" for countries, to that they can use it to advertise local membership
- Status work item: On hold - waiting for IHE Europe input, results brought to this group as base for staring the work-item::* Pending confirmation
- Status Action Items
- Report IHE Europe status and outcomes (Jürgen)
- Skipped due to time
- Work item: Sharpening the role and purpose of Deployment Committees
- Purpose: Upgrade the governance document, not sure, if hard constraints can be applied, but at least some more guidance, what we expect from a Deployment Committee
- Status work item: Not started yet due to bandwidth - pending other work-items to finish first
Any other business
- AeHIN Meeting (virtual): "Strengthening Regional Health Systems Response to COVID-19: Digital Health Experiences in Asia"
- Schedule: January 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2021 (every Thursday of January 2021 at 7:00-9:00 pm Manila time).
- [Link https://www.asiaehealthinformationnetwork.org]
- Report out of Netherlands (Tie)
- Developments in other sectors: Netherland's "Forum standardization"
- Led by the Ministry of Economic affairs, ALL ministries involved
- Director of that forum was at IHE EU Connectathon in Den Haag and said "I was inspired"
- Invited Tie to present the IHE methodology in front of all sectors (session is next week)
- Clear indication that the methodology shall be applied to all sectors (not only eHealth)
Next meeting
- Wednesday, January 6th, 06:00-07:00pm CT (US/Asia friendly)